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| summer house, Borrowdale | ||
| locality:- | Barrow Cascade | |
| locality:- | Barrow House | |
| locality:- | Barrow | |
| civil parish:- | Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | summer house | |
| coordinates:- | NY26941993 (estimate) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2619 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY21 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Der) |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake
of Derwent, ie Derwent Water, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by
Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published
1800. CT2NY21T.jpg "Pocklington's Cascade &two Summer Houses" item:- Armitt Library : 1959.191.3 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Green 1810 |
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| source data:- | Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature,
by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10,
published 1810. goto sourcepage 66:- "..." "A little building near the top of the fall [Barrow Cascde], in which there are seats, commands a splendid view of Derwent Water over the tops of the trees." |
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